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...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Chief executive Doug McMillon said: “We are pleased that we can see real progress stemming from our strategic choices and we appreciate the great work by our associates. Yet, we are not satisfied....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...Now, in the hills of the Ozark plateau in Arkansas, Wal-Mart’s retail power is carving out the 21st-century version of opportunity in a virgin land – a new Jerusalem funded and shaped not by industrial production...
...RFID, in particular, attracted a lot of attention at the beginning of the decade, with large retail groups such as Marks and Spencer and Wal-Mart using the technology to track goods in their warehouses and...
..., Home Depot, Kroger and Wal-Mart have said they will slow store openings next year....
...Lee Scott, chief executive officer of Wal-Mart since 2000, spoke to Jonathan Birchall, the FT’s US retail correspondent, about the state of the world’s largest retailer....
...In large part it is because of China and Wal-Mart....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, is dipping its toes into online grocery sales, with the expansion of a home shipping service for products including Perrier water and free-trade coffee at Sam’s Club, its...
...It has also recently registered new trademarks including “City Thyme” and “Field and Vine” to cover unspecified “retail grocery store services”....
...In a theatrical twist, Wal-Mart itself adopted its own agit-prop musical strategy at its annual meeting last year, when some 20,000 of its top associates witnessed a specially commissioned musical including...
...The modernisation of India’s $330bn retail sector will be long and painful, the head of Wal-Mart’s Indian partner has warned....
...“It is Bharti’s intention to set up retail stores in different formats as per its own market research,” says Wal-Mart spokesman Amy Wyatt....
...He was the former vice-chairman and associate of founder Sam Walton who headed the Wal-Mart stores division during the period targeted by the lawsuit....
...True to Wal-Mart tradition, all his 32,000 or so shop staff across the retailer’s 66 Chinese stores have their own chant....
...The company has framed the initiative as a public service effort, with Lee Scott, chief executive, saying on Friday Wal-Mart was “eager to see our associates take a more dynamic role in the electoral process...
...“The new paradigm for retail is that the store is a brand,” Stephen Quinn, Wal-Mart’s senior vice-president of marketing told investors this year, laying out the focus on reducing store clutter and making...
...Wal-Mart entered China in 1996, where it operates 60 stores in 30 cities. Independent unions are still banned in China and the ACFTU remains a tame outfit by international standards....
...And second, via ambitious plans to transform Indian food retailing that will see Bharti, in alliance with Wal-Mart Stores, open western-style hypermarkets across India....
...Toys R Us, the world’s largest speciality toy retailer, was slowly dying under competition from discounters such as Wal-Mart....
...Linens ‘n Things has been losing sales to rivals including Bed Bath & Beyond, the largest US retailer specialising in home furnishings, as well as facing competition from Target and from Wal-Mart....
...Wal-Mart was up slightly after saying it continued to expect August same-store sale growth to remain within its previous forecast of 3-5 per cent. Its shares gained 0.4 per cent to $48.91....
...This year, hundreds of employees also came to Fayetteville from Wal-Mart's stores around the world - reflecting the company's belief that its basic retail culture can be exported not just across the US but...
...Wal-Mart, Metro and Tesco may be dominating the headlines when it comes to RFID in retail, but before long they will find others following hard on their heels....
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